Dei por mim a pensar que na próxima quarta-feira já é 2014, não podia deixar passar em claro este facto, por isso selecionei algumas imagens que representam os momentos chaves para a Nuts for Paper.
\\I bet with the christmas season you didn't miss the Thursday Bits too much.It's back!The indoors Christmas market finished in the Christmas eve, it was an amazing experience, we met loads of people from our hometown and also met their crafts. We love it, and next year, if all goes well, we want to participate again.I caught myself thinking that next wednesday it's already 2014, I couldn't let it pass, so I selected some images that represent the highlights of this year for us.

- a Nuts for Paper começou a ser criada logo após a desbunda do Carnaval torriense \\ Nuts for Paper started being creatted after our homwtown carnival in february 2013

- as esquilo (alter-ego) Chubby e Snuggly nasceram e cada uma com uma personalidade mais vincada que a outra \\after the brand name was created the squirrels born as our alter-egos. Chubby Maroon and Snuggly Auburn - representing us in a very special way.
- 1ª coleção Nuts for Paper - Cadernos da esquilo Chubby \\ In June/July our first collection named after the brand was created. Notebooks with the squirrels and also that represent their personalities. In the image is the Chubby Notebooks and notepads.

- Coleção de Verão - Sea & Shells \\ Short after we decided it was time for a summer collection inspired by the seaside. Living so close to the sea it was natural that some day we would do it. This year we decided to focus in some Shells. Ans the Sea & Shells Collection was born.

- Coleção de regresso às aulas - Back to Basics \\ As that time of the year of getting back to school came closer we though about creating a different path of notebooks. We wanted a minimalistic approach to the notebooks and also inspired in some of things we like a lot back when we were at school. Inspired by three basic geometric forms (triangle, square and circle) and CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) the Back to Basics collections was born.

- Em setembro fizemos a nossa primeira parceria com a Casa d'Amendoeira - com as exposição "Paper Squirrel Party"\\ in September we did our first exhibition in Casa d'Amendoeira. It was also the start of a now long partnership. The exhibition was called "Paper Squirrel Party" and it was focused on the presentation of the squirrels, their personalities and also their family- uma parte da exposição no acolhedor espaço da Casa d'Amendoeira \\ Snuggly's corner in the "Paper Squirrel Party" Exhibition in Casa d'Amendoeira.- Ainda em setembro fomos às Caldas da Rainha ao Bazar à Noite. \\ Right after the exhibition we participate in our first street market in a nearby town - Caldas da Rainha.

- apesar do dia dos namorados estar muito longe a nossa veia romântica veio ao de cima e criamos este caderninho romântico \\ because of the street market and also the exhibition we did a lot of new notebooks. including this new model with soft cover and in a shape of notepad, although stitched as a notebook. Though the valentines day it was so far away, the romantic in us show up and we created this romantic squirrel.

- parceria com a pet shop MIWOW - cadernos com animais de estimação. \\ After A outra mafalda (me) did some special illustrations for the new pet shop MIWOW, we also did some exclusive notebooks with fluffy pets and their owners

- o nosso primeiro workshop!! \\In october our partnership with Casa d'Amendoeira goes on, and we do our first workshop. we loved it. - Coleção de Natal cheia de recortes e um novo modelo de caderno \\ This collection is very special! While I was working in some custom illustrations, Catarina (aka Snuggly) work really hard in this collection. It summed all the love she has for the Christmas time. All the little paper were hand-cut and glued in the notebooks. Each notebook of this collection has a lot of love and work hours. And it's very special in our hearts- primeira encomenda internacional para o continente americano! \\ And OH HAPPY DAY! Our first international order, that flew right into America! It was such a nice surprise, and our customer words make it all worthy - "I just love these little pieces of art! The only thing I'm sad about it using them-- but I will do so carefully so I can keep the trio of paintings to either frame or set in a collage. Thank you for your careful and beautiful work!"

- escrevemos um pequeno manifesto sobre o que fazemos. \\ Behond the notebooks that are already made, since day one of Nuts for Paper that we accept challenges and do custom covers. Don't be afraid of contacting us to do that special gift - it will be in good hands. In that note we also would like to share a little bit of our project philosophy "We value a lot the handmade process, therefore that was the path we choose to take. Everything you find in our shop is cut and assemble by hand. The illustrations are unique and exclusive to each notebook. We believe art should be accessible to anyone, and this is our way of doing our share."

- Coleção de Inverno inspirada em flocos de gelo. \\ The winter collection inspired in the snowflakes and also the phrase "Winter is coming" for all the Game of Thrones fans out there.- Participação na CCChic - feira e mostra de Natal na nossa cidade. (e as esquilo todas equipadas para o Natal). \\ In the end of Novemeber and until Christmas eve we participate in an indoor Christmas Market in our hometown. These are the squirrels all ready for Christmas and the market!

- primeira encomenda internacional europeia (sem ser Portugal) \\ our second international order, first in the european continent (without Portugal). This Cookbook flew to Ireland! One of my dream travels.

- novos cadernos de receitas com padrões inspirado na cozinha (mais novidades nesta onda brevemente). \\ new illustrated patterns, kitchen inspired, in a hardcover notebook. This is a very new thing, we will showcase more in the new year!!- já a sonhar com o próximo ano criámos calendários\\ This was something I wanted for a long time, Calendars! Each month with a special illustration featuring the squirrels.

- e porque gostamos de vez em quando de nos organizar - criámos agendas também \\ And because sometimes we like to feel grown up and organized - we created a few daily planners. We even did some custom orders for a friend.

OThursday Bits é escrito pela Mafalda, designer gráfica e ilustradora, mas acima de tudo uma sonhadora de idiotices (ideias), está sempre a pensar no que criar a seguir. Neste espaço ela gosta de partilhar novidades deste projeto Nuts for Paper e do que as Anas andam a criar. \\ Thursday Bits is written by Mafalda, graphic designer and illustrator, but above all a dreamer of ideas, she is always thinking what she can create next. In this space she likes to share news about this project Nuts for Paper and of what the Anas are creating.

Today it's Christmas Eve and I'm only writting to you to wish you the best Christmas ever. I'm ready to leave to my last day on CCChic and it's going to be crazy! Then I'll do some last minute shopping for my Mom (otherwise my Dad will have no gifts!) and next I'll come back home to make all of Christmas sweets and enjoy the evening and night in my small family: parents, sister and my pets Mia and Mel. I hope you have a sweet Christmas too and that the New Year will bring you all the things you wish for.Next week I'll be enjoying some mini vacations to visit some friends so it will not be The Jukebox Girl chronicle, but wait for me, because next year I'll be back! 'm so sorry I couldn't take the pictures I've promised you last week... but I have already gave the presents!I'll leave you with All I Want for Christmas is... because what we really need is the people we care about by our side. Merry Christmas and Happy 2014 to all!

\\A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.

We're officially to one week for Christmas Eve! I cannot believe how time flew! We're one week to CCChic (the Christmas Market) to finish and I still have some gifts to buy... time is so little and I have so much to do! In the streets you can hear all kinds of Christmas' songs and a lot of people in a rush to find their gifts. Our last weekend was particulary generous; we made a lot of sales and some other custom orders, particulary agendas. Personaly, I'm not a person who carries their plans on agendas (my mind deal it that just fine), but thank God there are many people who use them! It's like there is an agenda fever in the air... I think I made 5 agendas and I had a couple more to do. A big yay to that!

About my personal Christmas' shoppping... well, I hope to have some time this week to find what I'm looking for and to wrap all up (one of my fave parts of Christmas hehe)! This year I'm really feeling the colour red (pretty weird, don't you think?!), so I'm thinking to use that on my packages... I hope I can take a picture to show you guys next week! I really can't wait for Christmas! Enjoy the Christmas' spirit with some tunes related to that and I'll catch you next week!

\\A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.

OThursday Bits é escrito pela Mafalda, designer gráfica e ilustradora, mas acima de tudo uma sonhadora de idiotices (ideias), está sempre a pensar no que criar a seguir. Neste espaço ela gosta de partilhar novidades deste projeto Nuts for Paper e do que as Anas andam a criar. \\ Thursday Bits is written by Mafalda, graphic designer and illustrator, but above all a dreamer of ideas, she is always thinking what she can create next. In this space she likes to share news about this project Nuts for Paper and of what the Anas are creating.

Between short nights and long busy days, another week has passed and gone. Christmas is just around the corner and my shopping are almost finished. But the most important event in these past few days was my Mother's birthday. We don't do much on her day, but it's always a day to remember and I absolutly love to pick her gifts. This year, I decided to do something to give her; and nothing better than some unique custom hard cover cookbook. My mom cooks everyday and, now and then, she likes to try something diferent, on some special days. So, I thought a new cookbook was the perfect gift for her (I suppose I don't have to say that she has an astronomical amount of cookbooks). We use to see some online recipes and it is so much easier for her to have the recipies on a cookbook which she can reach anytime she wants (my mom doesn't understand very well computers or digital tecnologies in general).

\\What do you think of the result? My Mom loved it! And it has already some new recipies that we'll try in this Christmas! Maybe I'll take some pictures for you to droll then... :PI don't know if you like to cook with some background music (I think it's very relaxing); in our house we don't do that because the TV is always on but, for me, I always associate food to the soundtrack of the Ratatouille movie. It's just automatic, and I love the movie. I'm no great cook but the movie teach us that we just have to be passionate about it and a world of possibilities is open for us. So, I'll keep trying and, maybe one day, I'll be a pro in the kitchen, who knows!I'll leave you with one of my fave songs of the movie and stay tunned to our facebook page (I don't say to stay tunned with the Thursday Bits because with the excess of work, it might not happened this week either) because postcards, calendars and agendas are coming really soon!!! I'll catch you guys next week!\\A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.

Hey guys! It has been crazy days! It seems monday all days of the week because until 24th December there is no break for me. At least the sales are going well and everybody in the Christmas Market (CCChic) is very nice and available to help each others. It has been an amazing experience! And if you think that we spend all day talking you're wrong! We can listen to music too. I don't know who picked the soundtrack, but I bet it is a fan of Bossa Nova music (a genre of Brasilien music). They are mostly instrumentals of very known songs, so I share with you a couple of them this week. Hope you enjoy and don't forget to stay tunned for Mafalda's chronicle - Thursday Bits - because we have very nice news to share with you!! I'll catch you guys next week ;)

Tom Jobim - Wave

Jorge Ben Jor - Mas que Nada

\\A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.

Já andavamos com a ideia de fazer uns postais com as esquilo, e porque não agora? E foi assim mesmo.
O desenho em baixo é um pequeno preview do que vem por aí!
\\This as been passed between the indoors christmas market and creation of a few surprises that we have been preparing for long time. If everything goes right the big reveal will be next week.However I'm thinking if I show some of what we are working on... hum... Ok, I will, but just a little bit of it.We had this idea for a long time of making some postcards with the squirrels, and why not now? And that's what we do it.The illustration below is a little preview of what's coming.

Porque também é importante estar com os amigos e relaxar, e apenas divertir-se \\ Because is also important be with friends and relax, and just have fun.

E agora vou regressar para a CCChic que a minha horita de almoço já acabou... encontramo-nos por lá?
\\The squirrels are back, and just in time for Christmas!Have you missed them? 'Cause they missed you!And now I going back to the christmas marker, my lunch hour is gone... Meet you there?

OThursday Bits é escrito pela Mafalda, designer gráfica e ilustradora, mas acima de tudo uma sonhadora de idiotices (ideias), está sempre a pensar no que criar a seguir. Neste espaço ela gosta de partilhar novidades deste projeto Nuts for Paper e do que as Anas andam a criar. \\ Thursday Bits is written by Mafalda, graphic designer and illustrator, but above all a dreamer of ideas, she is always thinking what she can create next. In this space she likes to share news about this project Nuts for Paper and of what the Anas are creating.

Until Christmas this chronicle will be a little bit more short, but I'll always left you with some music as usual. These last few days the only music I've been listening to is in the car while driving to home or work; and the soundrack has been 21st Century Breakdown from Green Day. I'm tired of the radio; it's the same songs playing in loop all the time, so a cd is always a good idea. As I like to drive with electrifying music, Green Day seemed perfect. Hope you guys enjoy and see you next week!

\\A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.

\\This is the 100th post in the blog!WOW, seams like yesterday that we started and we are already reached this number! To celebrate this and Christmas we are going to have another giveaway soon. Be patient and with attention, it will be very soon.We are getting ready for the Christmas Market - CCChic in our hometown, it starts next saturday!How it is possible that's almost a month until Christmas?As you can imagine we have hectic! And with some stress added in the mix too! We have a lot of things ready for the Christmas Market and also a surprises under our sleeves that we will reveal soon.

Prendas de Natal! Serão? \\ Christmas Gifts? Are they?

Curiosos sobre como vai ser a nossa banca? Nós também!!
Estas prendas vão lá estar connosco, e os cadernos e blocos de notas da coleção de Natal também!
\\Curious about how our stand will be? So do we!!!But what we know is that these gifts will be with us, and also the notebooks and matchbooks from the Christmas Collection!

Blocos de Notas de Natal \\ Christmas Matchbooks

A semana passada mostrei alguns dos pequenos blocos de notas que estavam a ser feitos. E aí estão eles todos acabados e alinhados, à espera de serem fotografados e de irem para a CCChic
\\Last week I showed some of the matchbooks that were on the making. And here they are all finished and aligned, waiting to be photographed and go to the CCChic.

OThursday Bits é escrito pela Mafalda, designer gráfica e ilustradora, mas acima de tudo uma sonhadora de idiotices (ideias), está sempre a pensar no que criar a seguir. Neste espaço ela gosta de partilhar novidades deste projeto Nuts for Paper e do que as Anas andam a criar. \\ Thursday Bits is written by Mafalda, graphic designer and illustrator, but above all a dreamer of ideas, she is always thinking what she can create next. In this space she likes to share news about this project Nuts for Paper and of what the Anas are creating.

Can you believe this is already our 99th post in our blog?! I'm not a big fan of pair numbers (I leave that to Mafalda), so I decided that 99 posts was a importante number to share with you guys! Time flies when you do what you love and me and Mafalda are very proud of what we achieved so far. With baby steps we are sharing our passion to the world. So let's take a little break for "celebrate good times", like the song says, and then we'll go back to work ;)

Ok, back to work! In our studio everything is a mess! We are dealing with the final preparations for the fair we are attending during one month (yes, you are reading well! We will be on CCChic a whole month, here in Torres Vedras, which begins this saturday 23th november!) and, as we are finishing the last details, our desks are chaos! In mine, snowflakes are everywhere (a new collection of Winter notebooks is coming out soon!), to match the cold that settled in our town and as soundtrack the song Let it Snow is the tune of the moment. The winter has not started yet and I cannot stand this cold!Stay tunned and don't forget to read Mafalda's chronicle Thursday Bits for more news! Until next week, come visit us on CCChic!

Michael Bublé - Let it Snow

\\A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.

I have been feeling so lucky lately! I will explain it all right away!
Recently I created a Etsy shop with some itens done by grandma. It's called Linhas d'Avó (Granny's Threads). Granny is so happy about it (it was one of her secret dreams - open a shop), and also the feedback as been really good.
I won a giveway from a etsy shop that I LOVE - Lacuna- books with wooden memory and other unique pieces - They have handmade notebooks with upcycled (portuguese) wood covers. Perfect match to me.

Mais matchbooks da coleção de natal \\ More matchbooks from the Christmas collection

Mais matchbooks da coleção de natal \\ More matchbooks from the Christmas collection

OThursday Bits é escrito pela Mafalda, designer gráfica e ilustradora, mas acima de tudo uma sonhadora de idiotices (ideias), está sempre a pensar no que criar a seguir. Neste espaço ela gosta de partilhar novidades deste projeto Nuts for Paper e do que as Anas andam a criar. \\ Thursday Bits is written by Mafalda, graphic designer and illustrator, but above all a dreamer of ideas, she is always thinking what she can create next. In this space she likes to share news about this project Nuts for Paper and of what the Anas are creating.

It's been a whole week of party in my town. Actually, yesterday was the day of S. Martinho (our city patron) and as tradition we drink wine and eat roasted chestnuts. I love roasted chestnuts, they are so good and with this cold is great to warm it up. But I have to confess that my mind is all about Christmas. I've been breathing Christmas papercuts for a while, and this weekend was no exception. I feel like I'm so focused in this that time is flying and I'm so late with my gifts!! Yap, that's true, I'm freaking out a little bit, because I hate do my shopps in a rush, but it's been really hard to find time to do so much! It's been house-work, work-house, work in the house... it make me tired almost by reading it! And I know the right advice my mind speaks to me in silence "Relax, take it easy and everything's gonna be alright", pretty much like the songs (if you don't know what I'm talking about check it out below). My mind is really pick it up some stupid tunes nowadays... maybe my brain is also freaking out a little bit. But well, speaking in work, our Christmas Collection has been very appreciated, and the comments have been so good. I'm very happy with that, to see that people enjoy our creativity and hard work. If you didn't left us your feedback yet, feel free to do it, we like to know what you think about our work. Speaking of that, let me do some more papercuts... very soon you know for what event they are. Stay tunned and until next week, take care ;)

Mika - Relax, Take It Easy

Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

\\A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.